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Online is where it's at when it comes to learning resources for programming, especially for languages used primarily for web. Sometimes however, you just want a solid, consistent experience you can read without necessarily needing an IDE open in front of you and that's where eBooks reign supreme. Fortunately, O'Reilly has you covered with 36 free coding titles.

There are more than 600 notable coding languages out there, but few match the popularity of Java. If you're looking for a way to break into the tech field, learning a thing or two about this coding language is a surefire way to get a prospective employer's attention. Jumpstart your career with this 2017 Complete Java Bundle, with nearly 60 hours of user-friendly Java training.

A few months ago, Google and Udacity released their first "nanodegree" course for intermediate Android development. Today, they're going backwards to teach you the absolute basics.

The repercussions of Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin have been amazing so far, but it wasn't all going to be rainbows and sunshine. After two years of operation -- which included its purchase by Xamarin -- the ahead-of-time (AOT) Java compiler RoboVM is going to be shut down.

Remember those Java plugin pop ups that always appeared at the most inopportune moments? Well you never have to think about them ever again because Oracle has decided to kill off the Java browser plugin technology entirely. Popular browsers like Chrome and Firefox have already switched old plugins including Flash, Java and Silverlight, by default but this move is a solid recognition by Oracle that plugins are indeed archaic.

There was a time when browsers needed a little help to deliver decent multimedia content, but we're fast leaving those days behind. For proof, look no further to Google and now Mozilla's decision to cut the ancient Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI), the core API that allows plugins such as Flash and Silverlight to operate.

Code hosting website, GitHub, has published a graph which shows just how popular different programming languages are on the site since its launch in 2008. The results revealed some interesting trends and how different languages have picked up momentum in recent years.

The rumours have been confirmed: Microsoft is paying $US2.5 billion to acquire Mojang, the Swedish developer of Minecraft. That raises an interesting question: how will the deal change Microsoft's approach to Java?

Developers are often fiercely loyal to their preferred programming language. eBay engineer Ted Dzibua reminds us that serving the needs of the project is much more important.

Our main focus for Patch Tuesday around here tends to be on the monthly Microsoft version, but other vendors follow a similar model. Oracle has just pushed out its own quarterly 'Patch Tuesday' updates across its product range, with Fusion Middleware and Peoplesoft products a particular target amongst the 89 updates.

Microsoft and Oracle's new partnership means that you can run Oracle's namesake database software on Hyper-V and Azure, and Java apps will eventually be supported on Azure. It's good news for enterprises running a mixed Oracle/Windows environment and looking to expand into the cloud, and also suggests that Oracle is also going to give up on its own attempts in the virtualisation market.

It seems that Oracle just can't win with Java; recently it updated to fix major vulnerabilities, but now it's being reported that fake updates are subverting the process.

Oracle has rush-released a fix for a widely-reported major security flaw in Java which renders browser users vulnerable to attacks . Here's how to install it.

A number of major security flaws in Java were revealed earlier this week, and Oracle has broken its normal slow update process for Java to fix them. Here's how to make your machine safe again.

Windows/Mac/Linux: When learning a programming language for the first time, it can be difficult to see how lines of code translate to visual elements. Free educational webapp Greenfoot provides a structured sandbox where programming students create 'actors' that live in 'worlds' to build simulations, games, and and other visual programs.

Building for Windows Azure gives a wide choice of programming languages, from PHP to Java to Ruby to .Net. We chatted with Tim Buntel, Microsoft's Windows Azure Platform Product Manager, about how Windows Azure fits into the overall development scene.

If you'd like to keep a tighter reign on Flash, Silverlight, Java and other plug-ins, the latest Dev and Canary Build versions of Chrome allow you to set your plug-ins to "Click to play" and almost never see auto-loading web content again.

Windows: Having a portable version of Firefox on your thumb drive can be really convenient. Make Firefox, and OpenOffice.org and other apps, more adaptable and web-ready by installing Java Portable on that same thumb drive.